Are security and justice programs in fragile and conflict-affected countries fit for purpose? Existing literature suggests this is largely not the case and that this is well known amongst the international policy and practitioner community. So, why is this awareness not leading to improvement of the international community’s current approaches to programming? And what would it take to make some of the necessary changes?

These questions formed the core of Interactive Brainstorm #4, entitled ‘From understanding to promoting change: making better security and justice programming happen’, convened by the Platform on 10 May 2016. This report selectively captures key improvement points of each session, the implementation of which can strengthen S&J programming.